alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 1hthey should have made both margaret qualley and demi moore be inside the suit at the end of the substance like a pantomime horse 160
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 15hwow i guess “slay the neoliberal beast” does easily become “naive belief” if you slur just a few crucial syllables 150
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 15hin norway one of the banknotes has a cod on it and a king cod is a lucky cod with a deformed head, so it all makes sense 220
Reposted by aliceRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026IT’S STEAL A LITTLE TIME FROM THE BOSS TO READ ANNE CARSON DAY 517835
Reposted by aliceJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 08/10/2026Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...apnews.comCanadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literatureAnne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne... 9576159
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the essay that comes right before this poem has some amazing readings of the odyssey as well 000
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026could hardly pick a section from anne carson’s decreation to celebrate! 150
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026what could possibly be cheaper than getting academics to nerd out with a welcoming host???? 140
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I dont see how this is meant to save any money whatsoever — when I was on Free Thinking I literally recorded from a pile of cushions in my front room so it didn’t even cost studio time or travel 120
Reposted by aliceTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet 642560
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026boo BOOO they unquirked his creepy smirk from the main picture for debatten 100
Reposted by aliceNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4354198
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026norway daring to ask the question of what would happen if you had your flagship evening politics programme presented by a quirked up white boy 120
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i made the mistake of doing this on a lunchtime when i had just got off a plane and had a train to catch 😭 i’d left two and a half hours for it and only just made it to kings x after spending 90 mins in the basement queue 010
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026small victory: managed to visit all the places where my students were taking an exam and chat to all the invigilators in norwegian without anyone thinking i was a student or an imposter 0100
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the really scary part about knightmare is that you identify with the kid in the helmet who has to depend on his idiot pals to get him through the trials 120
Reposted by alicePriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175varsity.co.ukOrr’s lectures covered by a postgradJames Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge 1216576
Reposted by aliceChris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.archive.varsity.co.uk 1020167
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026monstrous behaviour yesterday this cat bit my toes repeatedly while i was eating my dinner because she wanted me to go and sit on the sofa with her so she could do this 110
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this is good because my other suggestion was tat from the cosmos!! 100
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026remember taking the train to ormskirk from liverpool just to pick up edge hill eduroam and get on their library resources — completely silly 120
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i’ve travelled in person to various libraries to get access to electronic resources which are open to visitors but only when they’re on the institutional wifi network 101
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026it is so, so annoying — it would be great if there was some kind of provision for just sharing <10 pages of electronic material via sconul, or giving you temporary access to electronic material via vpn for the same purpose 110
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026it’s up there with a former branch chair I know of who got voted out of office after many years in the role, joined management, and then crossed every picket line in the subsequent disputes 010
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026had a former colleague who used the strike days to go to a conference in hungary with victor orban if you want to find your wario 140
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it’s the first day of october and all the shops have towering displays of christmas biscuits and marzipan but it was 26 degrees yesterday 1141
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026what does it say about bluesky that all the replies to this tweet are from people who met the bishop of bath and wells in the 90s 2341
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ahh if it was jim thompson i’m fairly sure he heard that at our house at least once (also a vicar’s daughter here) and probably would have found it funny 390
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026get piddington twinned with the norwegian town of vang 100
Reposted by aliceNikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You have been blessed by the friend onion :). 803692594
Reposted by aliceDr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In conversations with clinicians, innovators and public advisers recently, the topic of ‘alarm fatigue’ keeps coming up, so I’m finally reading @alicebennett.bsky.social ‘s Object Lessons on the Alarm 192
